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Slide Pencil Case

A pencil case built like a drawer: the tray slides into a closed sleeve and clicks shut on two push-button latches, so it can ride upside down in a backpack and nothing spills. Press both buttons, slide it out. A low rib down the middle keeps pencils on one side and pens and an eraser on the other, and the name goes on the faceplate in its own color.

Letters, numbers, spaces, and basic punctuation. Set flush into the faceplate in its own color; long names are shortened to what fits.

How it's made. Two printed parts in PLA, no supports and no hardware. The tray prints flat: a 190 mm open tray with a 2.4 mm floor, 2 mm walls and an 8 mm rib, a faceplate at its front with the name inlaid 1.2 mm, and on each side a 20 mm cantilever tab carrying a ramped button. The sleeve prints standing on its closed back, a 2 mm tube with a window in each side. Sliding the tray in, the buttons' ramps press the tabs inward; at home they spring out through the windows and their square faces stop the tray — the pull lands on the sleeve wall, not on a flexing clip. The same latch as our Ammo Box.